Context-aware communication services: An ontology based approach

In this paper we present an original approach to model the user communication context and enable then context-aware communication services. The context is modeled through an ontology written in the W3C’s standard language OWL. Our ontology is enhanced into an active model by providing it a rule engine and a set of inference rules. To illustrate our research, we give an example of a scenario in which the system performs a context adaptation to redirect an incoming call while the callee is unavailable. We also show that our system can evolve to be possibly dispatched directly on users computers.